Neanderthal research (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 19:39 (5175 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

M-B: "Another devastating blow to Evolutionary Theory. If Neanderthals are our brothers and not our progenitors, then they are forced to come up with a new 'missing link'."-I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion! There's nothing very new here. You sound as if you are desperate to find anything against evolution.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution-"516 ka	Homo antecessor is the common genetic ancestor of humans and Neanderthal. At present estimate, humans have approximately 20,000...25,000 genes and share 99% of their DNA with the now extinct Neanderthal and 95-99% of their DNA with their closest living evolutionary relative, the chimpanzees. The human variant of the FOXP2 gene (linked to the control of speech) has been found to be identical in Neanderthal. It can therefore be deduced that Homo antecessor would also have had the human FOXP2 gene."

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